ASUS Padphone: a smartphone and tablet combination

This five-inch phone is 4G enabled and can turn into a tablet - handy for
those who do not want two mobile contracts.

The ASUS Padphone runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and has a pixel per inch ratio of 441.

The tablet is just a shell and cannot function unless the phone is docked to the back, but once the phone is attached the Pad shows the same interface as the phone on its 10.1-inch full HD 1080p display.

According to ASUS the market aim is people that want both a phone and a tablet but are tired of syncing the two devices and are unwilling to pay for two separate data plans.

The PadFone combination will be released worldwide towards the end of March 2013 and will retail at around €999 which puts it in the the high end of both the smartphone and the tablet market.

The phone is a 5-inch metallic, 4G enabled Android 4.2 Jelly Bean device with a pixle per inch ratio of 441 - enough to rival any other high-end smartphone on the market.